DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD

It is an object to provide technology allowing for appropriate control of a lighting apparatus to illuminate a road from a vehicle. An acquisition unit acquires position information of the vehicle, travel lane information indicating a travel lane in which the vehicle is traveling, and road information. A controller performs control to cause the lighting apparatus to illuminate a branching road directly connected to the travel lane in a first illumination manner when it is determined, based on the position information, the travel lane information, and the road information, that there is the branching road and the vehicle is traveling a first illumination section satisfying a predetermined positional relationship with a branching point of the branching road from the travel lane.